New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-30
PERSONAL.
Tho lato Iori Iddosloigh left a personal estate
valued at Sl15,OOU.

Tho lato Lori Iddosloigh left personal estate
valued at $1,000.
Professor Richard A. Proctor who By tho way Oh
sunday celebrated his nfticth birthday anniversary
,. found tho climate Of st. Joseph. No. uniaVOrapt
TO tho health OF his family
For some time past "Tho Pail Mall Gazette has
boen printing tho views OF eminent educators ana
literary mon on the subject OF teaching Ehghsn
literature at tho universities, and very Interesting
some Of tho contributions have been tut now II
m, end OF tho feast CONES tho best Of tho wine.
from, Mr. Rusl.in Hero il his volunteer utterance
H., fuu. az have boon watching with great interest,
"a Won NAV suppose, though not feeling 1t my bust
ness TO intormeddle-alL you've been saying latoiy
and getting said. on Academies ana uniVerslties-
and Literature, and tho Ike intntcs OF subject. and
! merely write to-day to relieve my mind little,
feeling moro than usually lazy. by observing that !
entirely dissent from everything you've been say Ing
and everything that everybody has said particu-
larry vour Plcbscite-and that tho Univorsltys bus-
ness in any country In Europe Is To scach IL. youths
"a much Latin Creek mathematics and astronomy
a. they can quietly learn in the time they re at 1t
and nothing cse-that II they don't learn their own
sItv-that If thoy want to learn Chinese they should
go to Chna-and If they want to learn Dutch TO AM
sterdanl-and after they've learned all they want
learn whoeSomely to hold their tongues. except on
extreme occasions, in all languages what"oever.'
Tho Row. A. J. Furman. OF pittston, Pom, Is
writing n history OF tho Furman family In America
and aocits items OF Information from It's members
Tho ancestors of this family In this country three
brotbcrs named Thurman. who hithcr in colonial
time, from tho borierland between France aud Ger
many ono settled on Long Island, and many OF his
descendants still there though others havo gOne
I'm Maine ana stun Others ~ south Carolina, where
The late Dr Richard Furnian founded Furman UnVer-
sity The second brother settled In Gonosee county.
H. IT, and has a numerous posterity IN tins state,
pcnnsylyania and the West Tho thiru Drother
sctici i'm Essex County, N. j.. but In 1l0i his entiIc
,,milv moved 10 Northumberland County. Penn. In
which region &c has greatly increased and multiplied
Tho widow OF vice-Prcsldont Hendricks il dcv citing
hcrsclf 10 tho completion Of soma favorite projects
left unfinished by her HUSBAND
Mr.. r. Adolphus Trollopc, when acting az the tai
ian correspondent OF London paper, once wanted TO
,lccranh that n Minister In answering Parliamentary
ues,ion had lied But the censorship would not al
,ow sucb n dispatch To pass So no simply teie-
ra nhed that "tho statement OF the Minister was 80
M variance with the facts that IL IL incredible
10 could nave uttered IT," IhiS was allowed To pass,
~ Course. and the folks at the London end Of the
~iro understood 1t and translated IL into emphatic
form.
WASHINGTON, March 90 Secretary Bayard left this
city for New York afternoon TO attend the funeral OF
william X Travers.
WASHINGTON March 29.-Baron dc strive. the Russian
Minister accompanied by Secretary Bayard today paid
farewell visit TO the President prior to sailing fol
Rus.a IL IA said ut tho Department OF State that the
Minister goes " Russia leave Of absence TO visit Lis
family.